Ian's Entrepreneurial Journal

As I ponder at what I have read during this week, I am reminded of how important it is to be able to work as a team and also to have a mentor. I have had a few mentors over my adult life. One of those mentors helped me get a job working for a copy machine sales and service shop when I got off of my mission. It was a decent job, but I didn't enjoy the work environment on occasion. However, I did gain valuable custom service and interpersonal skills, and how to work as a team. It was good for me even though at the time, I really was biding my time just to make money. Another mentor introduced me to the physical therapy industry. My friend is a physician assistant. I think highly of him. So I decided that I should come by and spot some physical therapists at work. What they do everyday is hard work, but very rewarding. In the end, I decided not to go into physical therapy. Overall I have had a hard time pinning down what exactly it is that I want to do. This is the mindset that has ma...

Life is definitely challenging. You don't need me to tell you that, but somehow it just feels satisfying to say that. I do feel that I have been intimidated by challenges in my life. This is something that gives me deep regret for things that I have not done in my past which may have been able to help me out in regards to finding my way toward a career. See, I am a bit of a slow learner. I'm not sure why that is the case. When given enough time I am able to comprehend a lot of things that many people find unimportant or uninteresting. For example I am very good at remember dates, numbers, and peoples' email addresses. How has this helped me? Not really tremendously well. I really dislike sounding negative, but unfortunately this is the though process that has guided most of my child and adult life, the thought: Well, I just am not capable of doing that, or I am just not as smart as most people. And it's not like I haven't had some great mentors over the years who...

Well, here I go. This is certainly my first time creating a blog for being or learning how to become an entrepreneur. As I reflect what has taken place this past week I realize that I do have marketable skills, I work hard, and can stay on task until a project is done. The one thing that I still struggle with is believing my ability to take on difficult tasks. I have self doubts. I have had feelings like this in the past and when the time came for me to perform that (seemingly to me) difficult task, I was able to perform just fine. Aside from having personal doubts, another temptation out there are distractions. What things distract me: a plane flying overhead, a conversation the family members are having in which the subject piques me interest, music, social media, and pets. As I pursue a degree in Applied Management at BYU-Idaho, I strongly desire to become effective at understanding, as George Leonard puts it, mastery. As I just barely broke into this book, in which I have never...